YOUR OWN BEST SECRET PLACE

by Byrd Baylor ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 1979

Still another intense evocation of the impalpable--touched off, this time, by the narrator's discovery of a ""secret place"" under a cottonwood tree staked out by one William Cruz, ""Beginning now. . . William Cottonwood."" So she thinks some thoughts of him, ""of other private hidden secret places I have had,"" of secret places other people she tells have had. One and all, they promise to ""ask around for William Cottonwood,"" to tell him she's thinking of him and keeping his place ready for his return. The pictures are if anything more dematerialized than ever--large areas of undifferentiated color, a few sweeps of line, some tiny, remote figures--and so, with the involuted text, the outreach is minimal, the sheltering comfort of a ""secret place"" nil.

Pub Date: July 30, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribners

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1979

Categories: CHILDREN'S